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Articlesby Jim ParkJune 13, 2024

Will Side-Underride Guards be Required for Trailers in the U.S.?

NHTSA is mulling a side-underride guard mandate for semi-trailers, but more than a dozen cities now demand companies bidding on contracts use them.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseJune 20, 2023

Driver Qualification Files, Equipment Compliance Among Fleet Challenges in Survey

Fleet managers are continuing to face the day-to-day challenges of staying up to date with regulatory changes and improving driver knowledge and skills, according to a J.J. Keller survey.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseJune 15, 2023

19 States Challenging EPA Waivers for California Plan

Missouri has joined a coalition of 19 states that are challenging an Environmental Protection Agency decision on California’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulation.

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Articlesby David CullenFebruary 2, 2022

Scoping out the 2022 Regulatory Landscape for Trucking

Is the Biden administration too busy dealing with supply-chain issues and pushing the White House policy agenda on Capitol Hill to spare much attention for trucking regulation?

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeNovember 15, 2021

Appeals Court: Trailers Not Covered by GHG Regs

An appeals court has ruled in favor of trailer makers, removing trailers from the 2016 greenhouse gas regulations published by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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Newsby StaffAugust 5, 2021

Biden Calls for Tighter Truck Emissions Regulations

President Biden has ordered federal agencies to develop more stringent fuel efficiency, greenhouse gas, and oxides of nitrogen emissions standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

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Why Trucking Fleets Need to Build a Strong Safety Culture

Some of the top concerns trucking fleets have today — rising insurance costs, “nuclear verdicts,” the driver shortage — could all be addressed through improving a company’s safety culture, says HDT Editor in Chief Deborah Lockridge in her blog.

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Newsby Vesna BrajkovicMay 10, 2021

Colonial Pipeline Shutdown Prompts HOS Emergency Exemption

FMCSA has issued a temporary hours-of-service exemption that applies to those transporting fuel to 17 states and D.C. in the wake of a cyberattack that caused a shutdown of a major U.S. fuel pipeline.

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Newsby StaffMarch 25, 2021

HDT Webinar to Explore Trucking Trends Under New Administration

In an upcoming webinar, Heavy Duty Trucking will lead a discussion with two top experts on what’s happening in the nation’s capitol that could affect trucking under the new administration and a Congress controlled by Democrats.

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Newsby Deborah LockridgeMarch 19, 2021

Labor Department Wants to Withdraw New Independent Contractor Definition

In a widely expected move, the U.S. Department of Labor has proposed to withdraw a rule published in the last days of the Trump administration that changed the definition of independent contractor.

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